Cotton-seed conveyer.



1). H. GREESONQ COTTON SEED UONVEYER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1900. RENEWED MAR. 20, 1909.

938,052. Patented 00c. 26, 1909.

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:oAvI'n'H. GREESON, or nowrn,

TEXAS.

COTTON-SEED QONVEYEB.

-- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

Application filed. May 31, 1906, Serial No. 319,639. YRenewed March 20, 1909. Serial No. 484,802.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that 1, DAVID H.

citizen of the United States, residing at Bowie, in the county of Montague and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Cotton-Seed Conveyer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to cotton seed conveyers and it consists in the novel conof its parts as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a means for discharging cotton seed from one or a battery of cotton gins.

The invention consists primarily-of a flue which is located below the gins and into which the same discharge. The said flue is provided with a straight flat bottom and in its top with valves of special construction and arrangement to control the introduction of seed into the flue and at the same time to regulate and properly direct a blast of air the flue and constitutes the seed conveying medium, a suitable means being provided for supplying such blast of In the accompanying drawing, the figure is a longitudinal sectional view of a flue applied to the cotton gins.

The flue 1 is located below the gins 2, 2, the discharge from the said gins entering the top of the said flue at the points 3. The fan casing 4: is attached to one end of the flue 1 and is provided with the rotating fan 5 which is adapted to force a blast of air through the said flue 1. To one side of each of the openings 3 islocated a valve 5 which is adapted to slide in an inclined direction the straight bottom 6 of the said flue. The lower end of said valve 5 is at all times farther away from the fan 5 than the upper end thereof. Said valve at its lower end is rounded as at 7, said rounded ortion extending transversely across the valve and the extreme end of the said valve terminates in the edge 8 which is in the same plane as the under surface of the valve. The said valve 5 is adapted to be adjusted in order to regulate the blast of air from the fan 5 through the flue 1 and the edge 8 at the lower end of the valve is so positioned in order that the blast of air in passing under the lower end of the valve 5 is crowded or forced against the straight or flat bottom 6 construction GREESON, a outlet from the the seed is of the flue 1, the object of this openlng 1n the being that the blast when so each other in retaining seed, one of the valves treated will not have a tendency to seek an flue 1 by passing up through the gin 2.

The flow of seed from the gin 2 is regulated by the valve 9 which is adapted to be adjusted in the top and sides of the flue 1 so that its lower edge may be moved away from or brought close to the upper face of the valve 5*. The said valve 9 is also pitched at an incline to the longitudinal axis of the flue 1 and its straight bottom 6. It is obvious that the blast of air in passing through the flue will carry the cotton seed to any desired or determined point or receptacle with which the said flue may be connected. The said valves 5*, 5 have a tendency to confine the blast of air against the straight bottom 6 of the flue 1 and thus the seed conveying means passes through the lower portion 0 the flue 1 and as the bottom 6 thereof is straight, no obstruction is offered.

The essential features of the invention reside in the combination of the straight bottom of the flue with the peculiar blast controlling valve and its relative position to the bottom.

Another feature resides in the longitudinally adjustable wind valve 5 in combination with the longitudinally adjustable seed valve 9 arranged in the specific manner as shown and described. By such arrangement the valve 9 may be adjusted with relation to the valve 5 so as to permit the seed to flow into the flue 1 in a fine stream. Also introduced into the said flue behind the draft and runs down along the valve 5 in the general inclination of the blast of air and commingles with the blast at the lower end of the said valve 5*. Thus the general direction of the blast prior to its introduction into the same and after the quantity of flow of the seed is regulated the quantity of the blast may be regulated by adjusting the valve 5 without altering the quantity of'flow of the seed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A pneumatic conveyer comprising a flue having a flat bottom and an opening in its top, means for forcing a blast of air through the flue, a chute arranged above the ue, synclinal sliding valves constituting the botflue and cooperating wit being adapted to he shifterl edgeu isewith as 1151 bw'n, I have hereto 'filked m y slgnfirelation to the other valve to regulate the ture in the presence of tWo Witnesses. flow of the seed into the flue, and the other Valve being adapted to be shifted edgeWise I DAVID GREESON" With relation to the bottom of the flue to Witnesses: regulz tethe volume of the air blast. A. E. THoMAs,

' In testimony that I claim the foregoing J L A. YANKEE. 

